A news and opinion perspective from the Islands. While the rest of you beaver away on the mainland, I comment about what goes on from Waikiki.

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Telling Saddam what's what, &c.

Jay Nordlinger this morning: "You know I like it when Judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman tells Saddam Hussein what the new facts of life are. Yesterday he told the ex-dictator that he could not use the courtroom to give political speeches. Saddam said, "I am the head of state." The judge said, "You used to be a head of state. You are a defendant now."

Then the judge turned off the defendant's microphone.

When you get terribly down, about the events of the world, think of that, my friends."